Tuesday, May 24, 2011

First Chapter First Paragraph Tuesday

Reading this alone I do not think that I would pick up the book, but since this is the third book in the Ruth Galloway series, I know that it will get better and I know that without a doubt I can recommend this writer.

The House At Sea's EndElly Griffiths

Chapter 1

THE TIDE IS OUT. In the early evening light, the sands stretch into the distance, bands of yellow and grey and gold. The water in the rock pools reflects a pale blue sky. Three men and a woman walk slowly over the beach, occasionally stopping and looking intently at the ground, taking samples and photographs. One of the men holds something that looks rather like a staff, which he plants into the sand a regular intervals. They pass a lighthouse marooned on a rock, its jaunty red and white paint peeling, and a beach where a recent rock fall means that they have to wade in the sea, splashing through the shallow water. Now the coastline has transformed into a series of little coves which appear to have been eaten out of the soft, sandstone cliff. Their progress slows when they have to clamber over rocks slippery with seaweed and the remains of old sea walls. One of the men falls into the water and the other men laugh, the sound echoing in the still evening air. The woman trudges on ahead, not looking back.

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A little bit more:

Description:

Just back from maternity leave, Ruth, a forensic archeologist, is finding it hard to juggle motherhood and work. The bones turn out to be about seventy years old, which leads and Ruth to the war years, a desperate time on this stretch of coastland. Home Guard veteran Archie Whitcliffe reveals the existence of a secret that the old soldiers have vowed to protect with their lives. But then Archie is killed and a German journalist arrives, asking questions about Operation Lucifer, a plan to stop a German invasion, and a possible British war crime. What was Operation Lucifer? And who is prepared to kill to keep its secret?